- to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- to give a definite form or shape to.
- to state or restate (the rules or implied rules of a grammar or the like) in symbolic form.
- to be or make formal
- to make official or valid
- to give a definite shape or form to
- to extract the logical form of (an expression), to express in the symbols of some formal system
